Railway tie



July 3, 1928.

A. NASBY RAILWAY TIE Filed Jan. 24, 1928 Patented July 3, 1928.

UNITED srnrss ALEXANDER NASBY, OF GORDON, WEST VIRGINIA.

RAILWAY TIE.

Application filed January 24, 1928. Serial No4 249,153.

This invention relates to railway ties and more particularly to a tiewhich, while capable of general use, is especially adapted for use inmine railroads.

An important object of the invention is tov provide a metallic tie whichmay be very readily and cheaply produced and which will be durable andeticient in service.

A further object of the invention is the production of a tie which maybe adjusted to permit its use with tracks of different gauges.

These'and other objects I attain by the construction shown in theaccompanying drawing, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown apreferred embodiment of my invention and wherein Figure 1 is a sideelevation partially in section of a railroad tie constructed inaccordance with my invention;

Figure 2 is a plan view thereof, one of the clamps being swung about itspivot;

Figure 3 is a detail longitudinal sectional View through the adjustingmeans for the tie.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, the tie comprises twosimilar sections 1() and 11, which may, under certain circumstances,hereinafter more fully set forth, be duplicates of one another. Eachsection has its inner end furcated, as at 12, and of the arms producedby this furcation, one, indicated at 13, has its lower face cut away toreduce the arm in thickness for a portion of its length, while theother, indicated at 111, has its upper surface similarly cut away. Eacharm 13 is provided in the reduced portion thereof with a slot 15. Thesections 10 and 11, when in assembled relation, have the arms 13 and 1stthereof coacting and the reduced port-ions overlapped and through theslots 15 of the arms 13, clamping bolts 16 are extended to engage thearms 13 and secure the sections in adjusted position.

To assist in adjusting the sections and to l prevent the gauge of therails l supported from the tie from depending upon the bolding abilityof the clamping bolts 1G, each section 10 and 11 is provided adjacentthe inner ends of its arms 13 and 1&1 with horizontally alignedtransversely extending openings 17 for the passage of a` pivot bolt 18,the tie sections at these points preferably being thickened, asindicated at 19. Mounted upon each pivot bolt is an eye bolt 2O formingone member of a turn buckle adjustment, the nut of which is indicated at21. This turnbuckle is arranged within the slot formed in the completedtie by the furcations 12 and forms a positive means preventing variationof gauge of the tie. This is particularly true when this st-ructure isemployed in combination with the clamping bolts 16 which, by theirtendency to hold the sections in fixed relation, will resist any'tendency to rotation of the nut of the turn buckle and act as lock nutstherefor.

lVhile any suitable means may be provided for securing the rails inposition upon the tie sections 10 and 11, I preferably employ the meansillustrated. This comprises rail clamps 22 in the form of metallicblocks pivoted at their outer ends to the sections 10 and 11, asindicated at 23, and having at their inner ends openings 24 for thepassage of clamping bolts which are adapted to engage in threadedopenings 25 in the tie. The type of clamping elements employed upon thesections 10 and 11 depend upon whether the rail R at the point ofengagement with the tie is a joint section or an ordinary section. Vherea joint is provided, the clamps 22 will, of course, be adapted forengagement against the lish plates 26, while where an ordinary railsection is accommodated, they will directly engage the rail. W'hereordinary rail sections or joint sections are encountered at both ends ofthe tie, the sections 10 and 11 will be identical in construction asA tothe clamping elements. W'here the tie is employed in mines, its flatlower face is simply laid upon the mine floor, but where employed instandard railroad construction, it is preferably laid upon an ordinarywooden tie and openings 27 are formed therein for the passage of lagscrews or similar securing elements, whereby the steel tie may be heldagainst movement with relation to the wooden tie.

Since the construction hereinbefore set forth is capable of a certainrange of change and modification without materially departing from thcspirit of the invention, I do not limit myself to such specificstructure except as hereinafter claimed.

l claim 1. A metallic tie comprising two similar loo cated and the innerends of the arms thus produced constructed to overlap one'another in theassembled relation of the sections, means for securing the arms to oneanother, a turn buckle connecting the sections for adjusting thesections and means for securing a rail to each section.

2. A metallic. tie comprising two similar bar-like sections having theirinner ends furcated and the inner ends of the arms thus producedconstructed to overlap one another in the assembled relation of thesections, means for securing the arms to one another, pivot boltsextended through the arms at the inner ends of the furcations, eye boltsmounted thereon within the Jurcations, a`

turn buckle nut connecting the ends of said eye bolts and means forsecuring a rail to each section.

3. A metallic tie comprisingtwo similar bar-like sections having theirinner ends furcated and the inner ends of the arms thus producedconstructed to overlap one another in the assembled relation of thesections, means for securing the arms to one another, means for securinga rail to each section, and means for adjusting the sections withrelation to one another to determine thev distance between rails sosecured.

In testimony whereof I hereunto allix my signature.

his ALEXANDER NASBY.

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